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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: load-path contains directories or directory names?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:46:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wpu991zm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vb9udc86.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 25 Oct 2015 20:39:21 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> In addition, on MS-Windows 'expand-file-name' converts all backslashes
> to forward slashes, thus producing nicer and more "standard" results.

This raises this issue of whether elements in `load-path' can have
backslashes (or other syntax on VMS? not that we support VMS anymore,
but I'm feeling nostalgic :).

I always assume `load-path' has canonical Emacs file name format, but
the doc string doesn't say that, and on Windows it would seem "natural"
to add directory file names with backslashes.

-- 
-- Stephe



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-26 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-23  4:26 load-path contains directories or directory names? Stephen Leake
2015-10-23  7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-23 14:01   ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-23 22:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-24  1:00   ` John Wiegley
2015-10-24 21:46     ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-24 22:48       ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-25 18:39       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-25 19:02         ` John Wiegley
2015-10-25 19:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-25 19:12             ` John Wiegley
2015-10-25 21:58               ` Drew Adams
2015-10-26 13:27               ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 13:46         ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2015-10-26 16:29           ` Eli Zaretskii

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